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Show 650 DR. J. ANDERSON ON REPTILES AND [June 18, before the frontal. The frontal as long as the frontoparietals and interparietals, in contact externally with the first to the third supraoculars. Pour supraoculars and five supraciliaries. Frontoparietals small, forming a broadish suture before the interparietal. Interparietal narrowly separating the parietals. A pair of nuchal plates. Two loreals, the anterior resting on the second labial, and the second on the third labial and very partially on the second. A small shield, behind the second loreal, resting on the 3rd and 4th labials, and another on the 4th and 5th labials. Fifth labial below the eye, not contracted below, entering widely into the labial margin. A large transparent ocular disk, larger than the ear-opening. The ear round, with two or three small lobules at the anterior border. Thirty-four rows of scales round the middle of the body, nearly smooth, but showing faint indications of a feeble tricarination (fig. 2 a). Limbs well developed; the fore limb when laid forwards reaches to the anterior angle of the eye, and hind limb when stretched forwards reaches along two-thirds of the distance between the axilla and groin. The lamellse of the digits are provided with prominent brown eminences, one to the centre of each lamella close to its distal margin, and resembling a short obtuse keel. The palmar and plantar surfaces with prominent tubercles more or less brown at the apices. Tail considerably longer than the head and body. Head brownish above, the shields margined with dark brown; body olive, with a bluish tint on the sides, each scale margined with dark brown and producing a tessellated appearance. A few dark spots on the labials. Under surface white with a faint bluish <->°* Sex. 2-. Snout to vent. .. 60 Tail. 80 Length of head. 13 Width of head. 8 Scales round body. 1-9 22-5 34 Fore Hind limb. limb. This is a species allied to M. brevicollis, but does not reach to half its dimensions, as the type is a gravid female. It differs from it, moreover, in the arrangement of its upper labials, in the greater size of the palpebral disk, in the structure of its toes, in the number of scales round the body, and in its markedly different coloration. 14. SCINCUS HEMPRICHI, Wiegm. Scincus hemprichii, Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg. 1837, p. 128. 1 d ,1 2 » a n d 1 ]uv« Shaikh Othman. 2 2 • Lahej ? These specimens differ from the type in the Berlin Museum, which I have examined, in having 24, instead of 22 rows of scales round the middle of the body. In one also there are only five supraorbitals on one side of the head, whilst in the largest specimen the frontoparietals have completely united with the frontals. In other respects they perfectly agree with the type. The number |